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JEST:

JEST: And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. -Francis Bacon Thou cannot not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. -Benjamin Franklin It is better to lose a new jest than an old friend. -Gabriel Harvey Play with me and hurt me not. -Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia Jesters do not often prove prophets. -Shakespeare: King Lear

JEALOUSY:

JEALOUSY: Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. -De Puisieyx There is more self-love than love in jealousy. -La Rochefoucld O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. -Schiller O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. -Shakespeare: Othello They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are jealous. -Shakespeare :Othello

IGNORANCE:

IGNORANCE: Ignorance gives one a large range of possibilities. -George Eliot There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. -Goethe Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance. -Ben Johnson A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -Charles Kettering The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. -Cesare Lombroso A food uttereth all his mind. -Proverbs 29:11 There is no sin except stupidity. -Oscar Wilde

IDLENESS:

IDLENESS: Idleness, the badge of gentry. -Robert burton I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. -Hugo Grotius Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. -Thomas haliburton As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. -Samuel Johnson Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. -La Rochefoucauld

IDEA

IDEA: Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only one we have. -Alain charlier Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow -T.S.Eliot:The Hollow men No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. -William James That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that a wrong one. -Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. -Donald Marquis Little words never hurt a big idea. -Howard Newton

HEROISM:

HEROISM: Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. -George Kennan There are heroes in evil as well as in good. -La Rochefoucauld Whoever excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes. -Jonathan  Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa